Live Music, New Mural, and Powering Coors

*Golden Eye Candy – Nancy Torpey – The M from Ridge Road – click to enlarge*

Real World Events

5-9PM Golden Game Guild Meet-Up Mondays @ Golden Game Guild

Live Music

12PM Rigby Summer & Abbigale Dawn @ Golden Mill
2PM Brian Hornbuckle @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage – outdoor patio)
8PM Gasoline Lollipops @ Buffalo Rose (main venue)

Art Update

*Jesse Crock mural at Golden Paws Animal Hospital – click to enlarge*

Want to see the latest Jesse Crock project? Drop by Golden Paws Animal Hospital at 701 Pine Ridge Road (map)!

Golden History Moment

Coors buildings shown in the September 6, 1978 Golden Transcript – click to enlarge

43 Years Ago
The September 6, 1978 Golden Transcript featured a photo of Coors buildings in the Clear Creek valley. The paper stated that “The major construction effort at present involves conversion of the brewery’s energy demand to a power plant that utilizes coal.”

This caught my attention because of a previous article I wrote about Coors’ 1970 conversion from coal to natural gas, which I reprint below. The coal plant being built in 1978 used cleaner “coal gasification” technology.

Originally published October 20, 1920

*Several postcards of Coors, all with smokestacks (and therefore all photos taken between 1925 and 1970) – click to enlarge*

Fifty+ Years Ago
The July 13, 1970 Golden Transcript reported that the Coors smokestack was being demolished. The 180 foot tall smokestack was built in 1925. The article explains that the stack had been used with a coal boiler. The Clean Air Act became law in 1967, and Coors had switched to gas and oil boilers, to clean up their emissions.

From the article:
All of this is part of Coors recognition for the need to control air pollution. Remember how the black smoke used to waft over the Table Mountains, down the valley towards Wheat Ridge or up the valley over Golden?

The presence (or absence) of the smokestack is one item that I use to help establish dates for pictures of Coors.

*Photo showing “black smoke [wafting] over the Table Mountains” – Denver Public Library Western History Collection – click to enlarge*

Thanks to the Golden History Museum for providing the online cache of historic Transcripts, and to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866!